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 HAVANA (AP) - Cubans lined the streets by the thousands Tuesday to welcome their national baseball team home, waving flags, roaring cheers and clutching flowers. Despite Cuba's loss to Japan in the final, even Fidel Castro was in a jovial mood.
"There was almost an electrical crisis in this country with all the television sets turned on," the 79-year-old leader joked in his address to the several thousand fans assembled for the homecoming.
The day after Japan beat Cuba 10-6 to win the inaugural World Baseball Classic, players' wives, children and other relatives greeted them with hugs and kisses on the tarmac as their flight arrived Tuesday from San Diego.
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